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'I thought there would be more meditation,' said one woman in the line for the toilet. 'Me too, but then it was pretty cheap, so can’t complain,' added her friend.

What happens when Rachel Hunter sells out a Christchurch school hall?

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'I didn’t even know what a Fiat was before these ads.'

‘Sometimes I’ll get a free drink’: Bubbah’s double life as Tina from Turners

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10.53am: Our next film is a British 60s flick about a bunch of little kids. Their tiny British accents are adorable, but I don’t care about their sad little lives. What about mine?

Munchies and mania: surviving a 24-hour movie marathon

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Happy 30th birthday to one of the most ambitious, bizarre, beautiful and brutal films New Zealand has ever produced. 

Rewatching Heavenly Creatures, three decades on

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'I looked over and saw Dai Henwood just shaking his head.'

‘The room went dead quiet’: Josh Thomson on his worst 7 Days moment

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Meet the Southland principal who wrote and directed a feature length fantasy epic starring the whole school.

‘Primary school LOTR’: The principal giving Peter Jackson a run for his money

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'I like the home comforts: the food, the bed, the couches, the Sky TV...'

‘You’ll love it, but you’ll hate it’: Christian Cullen on becoming CTI’s most unlikely star

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A soul-to-soul with Married At First Sight's spiritual star, who doesn't own a TV and thinks the show is 'trash'.

A drink with Lucinda Light, the greatest MAFS participant of all time

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It’s 25 years since a dog said ‘bugger’ on TV... and changed the nation forever.

‘It was just the right word’: When ‘bugger’ took New Zealand by storm

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How Mukpuddy conjured up a bold new vision of Badjelly the Witch

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Ladies and gentlemen… this is really, really bad.

What has The Warehouse done to my favourite song? 

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Only read this if you've also had John o' Groats, Fray Bentos and the sword of Damocles stuck in your head since 2002.

A complete list of things I only know about because of The Office

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There's nothing better than having your movies curated by a total stranger. 

An ode to the weird bach DVD collection

Claire Mabey

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Did you love or hate season three of The Bear? We argue the pros and cons.

Does The Bear suck now? A hater and an enthusiast argue about season three

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'It obviously spoke to the children,' says the woman responsible for promoting fish and chips at breakfast, lunch and tea.

Meet the unsung icon behind the primary school hit ‘Fish and Chips’

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The Q+A host reflects on his career in broadcasting, and the moment he realised it was all worth it.

‘I’ve never lived it down’: The Breakfast live cross that still haunts Jack Tame

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'For blokes, it's probably the child they never knew about. And for women, it’s probably the child they’ve never spoken about.'

‘One hell of a shock’: Why not everyone wants flowers from David Lomas

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The groundbreaking show has had mixed reviews over the past two decades. 

Reviewing the very first episode of bro’Town, 20 years on

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I watched all 46 of Tom Cruise's films over the past 12 months. The question on everyone's lips: why?

‘The mission is clearly possible’: On watching every single Tom Cruise movie ever made

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A dark and stormy night of mushrooms and murder, sorbet and suspicion, and more fedoras than you've ever seen in your life. 

I survived five hours on Christchurch’s first murder mystery train ride

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Further interest rate cuts are coming, but why does everything still feel so bleak?

Murky economic outlook sets the scene for the year to come

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Despite fewer machines, pokies are raking in more than $1bn a year. So are restrictions working?

Sinking lids and rising profits: The problem with pokies

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The tide is turning on Insta-therapy. Good riddance, but actual therapy is still good and worth doing. 

Don’t let the backlash to therapy culture stop you from doing therapy

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When is it too late to say ‘Happy New Year’? An official ruling

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For all the spectacle of WoW, Alex Casey couldn't tear her eyes off Christopher Luxon in the front row. 

I watched Christopher Luxon watch the World of Wearable Art

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Treaty issues will dominate the first six months, but that's not all.

What will be making headlines in 2025?

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The Kim Dotcom challenge to John Key culminated in an extravaganza joining dots from the US, the UK and Russia – even North Korea. It got messy.

The Moment of Truth: Revisiting a wild night in NZ politics

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An in-depth examination of the causes, implications and potential cures for homelessness across the country.

Inside the urgent race to solve homelessness in Aotearoa

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New Zealand used to be a country of vibrant synthetic striped polyprop. What happened?

Rainbow warmth and garish colours: When did stripy polyprop disappear?

Back by lukewarm demand, On The Reg is The Spinoff’s regular gaming session streamed live every Wednesday at 7pm on 

. This highlights package sees Sam Brooks and Geordie walk through the uncanny valley of death in collaborative noir crime drama 

On The 'Reg Live-stream Highlights: Hidden Agenda

This post, like all our gaming content, comes to your peepers only with the support of 

. We played our hearts out on gear supplied by 

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Two men try their hand at one of these newfangled collaborative games and boy are they confused!

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Pop CultureDecember 4, 2017

On The Reg livestream highlights: Hidden Agenda

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On The Reg livestream highlights: Hidden Agenda

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